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 On this page we have attempted to tie events, stories and possibly other memorable moments, which may have escaped us from that care free time. We can't guarantee it's all entirely accurate but we certainly found the researching for this page both sweat and sour.

There are highs and lows here. The lyric from "Fading Lights", the last track on the "We Can't Dance" album, captures this page eerily - "and you know that these are the days of our lives - remember"...

1970
Jan 21 - Pan Am begins first Transatlantic Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet service.
Jan 24 - Dr Robert Moog unveils a miniaturized synthesizer known as the Mini-Moog.
Feb 16 - Boxer "Smokin' Joe" Frazier becomes world heavyweight champion.
Mar 03 - Genesis perform Upstairs At Ronnie Scott's, London.
Mar 11 - Timothy Leary is sentenced to ten years in jail for possession of marijuana.
Apr 09 - Beatles go to court to divorce each other.
Apr 11 - Apollo 13 Moon landing is aborted after a liquid oxygen tank explosion onboard.
Apr 13 - Genesis perform at the Friars, Aylesbury.
Jun 07 - The Who perform their rock opera Tommy at New York's Metropolitan Opera House.
Jun 18 - Surprise election victory for Heath.
Jun 21 - Brazil wins World Cup in Mexico City, beating Italy 4-1.
Jul 16 - A state of emergency is declared as Dockers call a national strike over their wages.
Aug 02 - Troops in Belfast use rubber bullets for first time.
Sep 06 - Britain exchanges Palestinian terrorists for hijack hostages.
Oct 06 - Genesis perform at the British Legion hall, Princes Risborough.
Oct 09 - Cambodia declares itself to be the Khmer Republic.
Oct 20 - Jim Morrison, The Doors vocalist, is found guilty of indecent exposure and profanity.
Nov 20 - A tidal wave kills 150,000 in East Pakistan. The 30 foot high wall of water destroys entire villages and comes in the wake of a typhoon with 125 mph winds.
Nov 27 - The UK Gay Liberation Front holds its first public demonstration.
Dec 28 - Genesis perform at the Lyceum, London.
Dec 31 - Paul McCartney goes to court to dissolve Beatles.

Deaths:
Sep 18 - US rock musician Jimi Hendrix dies in London after inhaling his own vomit while under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
Oct 04 - Singer Janis Joplin, aged 27, of a heroin overdose.
Nov 09 - Former French President General Charles de Gaulle.

Movies: M*A*S*H, Patton, Love Story, Airport.

Quote of the Year: "I don't think we have anything to learn from the Brazilians". Sir Alf Ramsey.

Football: Chelsea beat Leeds United (2- 1) in the FA Cup after a replay at Old Trafford. This was the first FA Cup replay in a final since 1912. Arsenal and Manchester City both won in Europe, the second time that two English clubs had won in Europe in the same season. Arsenal won the Fairs Cup, their first trophy since 1953. Manchester City became the second club to complete a European and domestic double by winning the Cup Winners Cup and the League Cup. Everton won a record-equalling 7th Championship.

1971
Jan 02 - 66 Football fans killed when barrier collapses at Ibrox Park, Glasgow.
Jan 07 - Long hair for men is declared legal in the USSR.
Jan 19 - The first all-out strike in the 300 year history of the Post Office halts postal services.
Jan 25 - Coup puts Idi Amin in power in Uganda.
Jan 25 - Genesis perform at the Birmingham Town Hall.
Feb 04 - Rolls Royce is declared bankrupt.
Feb 05 - Apollo 14 lands on Moon. Two moonwalks are made and 100 lbs of moon rock samples collected.
Feb 07 - Swiss women win the right to vote.
Feb 09 - Genesis perform at the Rainbow Theatre, London (first bat wings).
Feb 15 - Decimal currency introduced.
Mar 29 - Charles Manson is convicted of Tate murders. The Manson "Family" are sentenced to death.
Apr 19 - Genesis perform at the Teatro Mediterraneo in Naples.
May 21 - EEC agrees terms for British entry.
May 28 - Genesis perform at the Great Western Express Rock Festival, Lincoln (first Watcher).
Jun 16 - Genesis perform at the Corn Exchange, Bedford.
Jul 14 - Genesis perform at the Lyceum, London.
Aug 11 - Belfast is torn by rioting after introduction of internment without trial.
Sep 03 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono leave London for New York. John will never return to the UK.
Sep 28 - Genesis perform at the National Stadium, Dublin.
Sep 30 - US Coastguards prevent members of a new Canadian environmental pressure group from reaching the island of Amchitka off the coast of Alaska (the site of an imminent US nuclear test). The campaigners are onboard a fishing boat which they have called Greenpeace.
Oct 10 - Re-built London Bridge is opened at Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Built in 1824 across the River Thames, the bridge had been dismantled and shipped brick-by-brick from London, England to its new home.
Nov 21 - Genesis perform at the Technical College, Watford.

Deaths:
Jul 03 - Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, dies in Paris of a heart attack while in the bath.
Jul 06 - Jazz legend Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong.
Oct 12 - Rock & roll pioneer Gene Vincent dies of a ruptured stomach ulcer (aged 36) in California.
Oct 29 - Duane Allman of The Allman Brothers Band dies in a motorcycle accident, aged 24.

Movies: A Clockwork Orange, The French Connection, The Last Picture Show.

Quote of the Year: "People complain one isn't with it, but honestly - that's the limit, the absolute limit". 20 year old Princess Anne on hot pants.

Football: Arsenal became the fourth club to complete the League and FA Cup double, ten years after their rivals Tottenham Hotspur. This was a record 8th Championship. Leeds United came second with 64 points, the highest number for that position. They reached their third European final. By winning the Fairs Cup, they became the first English club to win a second European trophy. Burnley were relegated after 24 consecutive seasons in the top Division. London clubs did well with Tottenham Hotspur winning the League Cup and Chelsea winning the Cup Winners Cup.

1972
Jan 12 - Genesis perform at the Basel, Switzerland.
Jan 20 - Unemployment rises above one million.
Jan 30 - "Bloody Sunday" in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. 13 civilians are shot and killed by British Troops during riots against internment.
Feb 05 - Due to increased hijackings, the screening of passengers and luggage becomes mandatory on all domestic and foreign flights by US airlines.
Feb 09 - A state of emergency is declared in Britain as the month-old miners strike leads to wide spread power cuts.
Feb 09 - Genesis perform at the Rainbow Theatre, London.
Feb 09 - Paul McCartney and his new group, Wings, begin their debut low-key tour of small British venues with an unadvertised show at Nottingham University.
Mar 08 - Genesis perform at the Carnegie Hall, New York.
Mar 15 - A Los Angeles radio station plays the Donny Osmond single Puppy Love for 90 minutes non-stop.
Apr 19 - Genesis perform at the Napoly Theatro Mediterraneo.
Jun 15 - Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher discontinues free milk to British schoolchildren.
Jul 21 - 22 IRA bombs explode in Belfast, killing 13 people and injuring 130.
Jul 22 - Paul McCartney and his wife Linda are arrested in Sweden for possession of marijuana.
Aug 06 - Idi Amin gives Asians of non-Ugandan citizenship 90 days to leave Uganda. 50,000 attempt to flee to Britain.
Aug 11 - Genesis perform at the Reading Festival.
Aug 26 - Swimmer Mark Spitz wins a record seven Olympic gold medals at Munich.
Aug 29 - Nixon announces that an investigation of the Watergate break-in led by White House counsel John Dean, has revealed that administration officials were not involved.
Sep 01 - Bobby Fischer becomes first US world chess champion, beating Boris Spassky of the USSR.
Sep 05 - Black September Arab terrorists take Israeli athletes hostage at the Olympics. In a bungled rescue attempt all nine hostages, four terrorists and one policeman are killed. Two other athletes die at the Olympic Village.
Sep 12 - Cod War breaks out after an Icelandic gunboat sinks two British trawlers in the North Sea.
Oct 29 - Arab terrorists hijack a Lufthansa flight and secure the release of three Palestinians being held in West Germany for the Olympic massacre.
Dec 07 - Apollo 17 is launched, the sixth and last spacecraft of that series. Astronauts Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt splash back to Earth on December 19 carrying 249 lb of rock and soil samples from the Moon.

Deaths:
Apr 27 - Phil King (Blue Oyster Cult).
May 02 - FBI founder, J Edgar Hoover.
Jun 13 - Clyde McPhatter, original vocalist with The Drifters.
Sep 27 - Rory Storm (born Alan Caldwell).
Nov 11 - Berry Oakley, bass player of The Allman Brothers, is killed in a motorcycle accident three blocks from where Duane Allman was killed.

Football: Leeds United won the FA Cup on the 100th anniversary of the competition. Two days later they visited Wolverhampton Wanderers needing a draw to win the League and become only the fifth club to complete the double. They lost 1-2. On the same night, Liverpool needed to win at Arsenal to become Champions. They drew 0-0 after having a goal disallowed two minutes from the end. Derby County (whose players had gone on holiday expecting to be caught) became League Champions. Arsenal reached their second successive FA Cup final with no home draws in either season. The Fairs Cup was renamed as the UEFA Cup. For the first and only time, a European final was between two English clubs. Tottenham Hotspur beat Wolverhampton Wanderers in the two legged UEFA Cup final to become the first English club to win two different European trophies.

1973
Jan 01 - Britain becomes part of the EEC (European Economic Community).
Jan 22 - The Supreme Court legalizes abortion in the US.
Mar 08 - In a Northern Ireland referendum, voters choose to remain part of the UK, but only 59% of citizens vote.
Mar 23 - Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in the USA but John Lennon is ordered to leave the country within 60 days.
Apr 01 - VAT (Value Added Tax) introduced in UK.
Apr 30 - On national TV, Nixon accepts responsibility, but not blame, for Watergate.
May 14 - US launches their first space station, Skylab. Its solar panels are damaged during the launch.
Jul 04 - Slade drummer Don Powell is badly injured in a car crash that leaves his girlfriend dead.
Sep 08 - Genesis perform at the Oxford Theatre.
Sep 23 - Genesis perform at Newcastle City Hall.
Oct 08 - Britain's first commercial radio station, the London Broadcasting Company, goes on the air.
Oct 09 - Elvis and Priscilla Presley divorce.
Oct 17 - Eleven Arab OPEC states agree to cut oil production and raise prices by over 70% in protest at US support of Israel.
Nov 03 - Genesis perform at the Massey Hall, Toronto.
Dec 17 - PM Heath initiates a three-day industrial week in response to crippling disputes in the coal, railway and power sectors.
Dec 17 - Genesis perform at the Roxy, Los Angeles.

Deaths:
Apr 08 - Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, aged 91.
Jun 04 - Murry Wilson, father of Beach Boys Brian, Carl and Dennis, dies of a heart attack.
Jul 19 - Actor and Martial Arts expert Bruce Lee.
Sep 02 - British author J R R Tolkien.
Oct 16 - Gene Krupa.
Nov 06 - New York Dolls drummer Billy Murcia dies of a heroin overdose in London, England.
Nov 26 - Bass player John Rostill of The Shadows is electrocuted while playing guitar in his home studio.
Dec 20 - Bobby Darin, aged 37, during heart surgery.

Movies: American Graffiti, The Exorcist, The Sting, Last Tango in Paris.

Quote of the Year: "When you are a guest in someone's house, you do not start criticizing the wallpaper or moving the furniture around". Roger Moore, in South Africa to make the film Gold responding to a question about his attitude to apartheid.

Football: Liverpool became Champions for the 8th time, equalling Arsenal's record. Liverpool also won the UEFA Cup becoming the sixth English club in six years to win it (or its previous incarnation, the Fairs Cup). This was the first time that the Champions also won a European trophy. West Bromwich Albion were relegated after 24 consecutive seasons in the top Division. Tottenham Hotspur became the first club to win the League Cup twice. This gained them qualification into the UEFA Cup. Because of the "one city, one club" rule (inherited from the Fairs Cup), Tottenham Hotspur's UEFA Cup qualification excluded Arsenal, who finished 2nd in the League. This anomaly made the European football authorities abolish the "one city, one club" rule.

1974
Jan 20 - Genesis perform at Drury Lane, London.
Feb 10 - Coalminers begin a national strike for a large pay increase.
Mar 04 - Edward Heath resigns as Prime Minister and Labour party leader Harold Wilson forms a new government.
Mar 09 - Genesis perform at the Gusman Hall, Miami.
May 26 - The teenage audience at a David Cassidy concert in London runs out of control. Six girls are taken to hospital and a 14-year-old dies four days later from injuries sustained in the crush.
Jun 17 - IRA bomb explodes in the Houses of Parliament. Damages Westminster Hall.
Jun 23 - Genesis perform at the Wembley Arena, London.
Aug 05 - Nixon releases tapes and transcripts, which reveal his approval of the Watergate cover-up.
Aug 08 - Nixon is first US President to resign. Watched by 100,000,000 people on television, he admits he made some wrong decisions, but insists that the real reason he is leaving is because Congress no longer supports him.
Aug 09 - Gerald Ford sworn in as new President.
Sep 08 - President Ford grants "full, free and absolute pardon" to ex-president Nixon.
Oct 10 - At the second British general election of the year, Labour wins a narrow majority.
Oct 11 - London rocked by series of IRA bomb blasts.
Oct 29 - Mohammed Ali regains his world heavyweight title in Zaire.
Nov 12 - Police want missing aristocrat Lord Lucan for murder of his children's nanny.
Nov 21 - Twenty-one people die in IRA bomb blasts in two public houses in Birmingham.
Nov 24 - Genesis perform at the Masonic Temple, Indianapolis.
Nov 29 - Britain outlaws the IRA.

Deaths:
May 24 - Jazz musician Duke Ellington.
Jul 29 - Mama Cass Elliot (The Mamas and Papas) dies in a London flat from a heart attack induced by choking on a ham sandwich, after which she inhaled her own vomit.

Movies: Chinatown, The Godfather Part II, Blazing Saddles, The Towering Inferno.

Football: Leeds United won the Championship after leading all season. The number of clubs to be relegated was increased from two to three. Manchester United went down after 29 consecutive years in the First Division. They lost one of their final matches 0 - 1 to their rivals Manchester City.

1975
Jan 04 - Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, besiege Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia.
Jan 10 - Genesis perform at West Palm Beach, Florida (the Lamb Lives recordings).
Jan 20 - The Channel Tunnel between England and France is abandoned.
Jan 24 - Genesis perform at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles.
Feb 11 - Margaret Thatcher is elected as new Tory leader.
Feb 28 - An underground tube train crash at Moorgate in London kills 42.
Mar 03 - Genesis perform at the Palais Des Sports, Paris.
Apr 03 - Genesis perform at the Jahrunderthalle, Frankfurt.
Apr 27 - Genesis perform at the Palace Theatre, Manchester.
May 02 - Genesis perform at the Birmingham Hippodrome.
May 14 - Frank Sinatra wins libel action after being linked to the Mafia by the BBC.
May 27 - Genesis perform at the Palais de Sports, St Etienne (Gabriel's last show).
Aug 04 - Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant and his wife are seriously injured in a car crash in Rhodes, Greece. Plant has to be flown back to England in plaster to recuperate.
Sep 29 - Soul singer Jacki Wilson falls into a coma from which he will never recover. Wilson died in January 1984 after nine years in the coma.
Oct 10 - Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor marry for the second time in Botswana. They will divorce in the following year. It will be Elizabeth Taylor's 6th divorce.
Oct 15 - "Cod War" breaks out between Britain and Iceland.
Nov 06 - The Sex Pistols play their first live gig at London's St Martin's School of Art. Their set lasts 10 minutes before organizers turn off the electricity.
Nov 29 - Racing champ Graham Hill, 46, dies in air crash when the light aircraft he is piloting crashes in freezing fog near Elstree Airport.
Dec 31 - Sex Discrimination Act and the Equal Pay Act pass into law in the UK.

Deaths:
Mar 14 - Actress Susan Hayward.
Mar 15 - Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
Apr 23 - Pete Ham of UK band Badfinger commits suicide by hanging himself.
Jun 29 - Tim Buckley dies in hospital in California after taking a fatal overdose of heroin and morphine, believing it to be cocaine.
Oct 01 - Al Jackson, 39, drummer with Stax legends, Booker T and the MG's, is shot and killed when he confronts an intruder in his Memphis home.
Nov 29 - British racing champion Graham Hill, 46, in a plane crash.

Movies: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Football: West Ham United and Fulham played in only the second all-London FA Cup final. Derby County won the Championship in a season that saw the leadership change a record 21 times during the season. By reaching the European Cup final, Leeds United became the first English club to play in all three European finals.

1976
Jan 06 - Following 15 sectarian murders within a week in Northern Ireland, the British government sends in the SAS (Special Air Service).
Feb 18 - Sculptor Carl Andre's controversial pile of bricks goes on show at the Tate Gallery.
Apr 05 - James Callaghan is new Prime Minister.
Apr 07 - Genesis perform at the Tower Theatre, Philadelphia (front-man Phil).
Jun 01 - Britain and Iceland agree terms to end "Cod War".
Jun 11 - Genesis perform at the Hammersmith Odeon, London.
Jun 25 - Idi Amin elects himself president of Uganda for life.
Jul 01 - Britain experiences worst drought in 250 years.
Jul 03 - Swedish tennis player Bjorn Borg, wins Wimbledon men's single tennis title aged 20.
Jul 03 - Supreme Court rules that death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment.
Jul 04 - US celebrates its bicentennial.
Jul 04 - Israeli airborne commandos attack Uganda's Entebbe Airport and free 103 hostages held by pro-Palestinian hijackers on an Air France plane; one Israeli and several Ugandan soldiers killed in raid.
Jul 09 - Genesis perform at the Apollo Theatre, Glasgow.
Jul 17 - The Olympic Games open in Montreal, Canada. Subsequently 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci scores the first perfect 10 ever awarded in her sport.
Jul 27 - Three years and four months after he was ordered to leave the US by the Immigration Department, John Lennon is finally granted a Green Card.
Aug 01 - Formula 1 ace Niki Lauda critically injured and severely burnt in West German Grand Prix.
Sep 20 - The 100 Club in London's Oxford Street is the venue for the first Punk Rock festival in Britain.
Aug 04 - Mysterious disease that eventually claims 29 lives strikes American Legion convention in Philadelphia - The advent of 'Legionnaires Disease'.
Sep 29 - Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally shoots his bass player while firing at the door the musician is standing behind. The bass player lives to sue his boss.
Sep 30 - California passes the first state "right to die" law, which grants adults the right to authorize physicians to turn off their life-support system if death is imminent.
Dec 04 - Reggae star Bob Marley is injured when seven gunmen burst into his house in Kingston, Jamaica.

Deaths:
Jan 05 - Former Beatles road manager Mal Evans shot dead by Los Angeles police investigating a domestic dispute.
Jan 12 - British crime writer Agatha Christie, aged 85.
Mar 19 - Paul Kossoff of rock band, Free, dies in his sleep on a flight from London to New York. Aged 26.
May 14 - Former Yardbirds vocalist Keith Relf dies after being electrocuted while cleaning his guitar at home.
Apr 26 - British Carry On star and comedian, Sid James.
Dec 04 - Tommy Bolin, ex-Deep Purple, dies of a heroin overdose.

Movies: Rocky, Taxi Driver, Network, All the President's Men.

Football: Liverpool won a record 9th League Championship. In their final match they beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 3 - 1 away, condemning them to relegation and piping Queens Park Rangers by a point. They also won the UEFA Cup, repeating their Championship and European trophy double of 1973. Southampton won the FA Cup as a Second Division club only three seasons after Sunderland.

1977
Jan 01 - Genesis perform at the Rainbow Theatre, London (Chester's first show).
Jan 06 - EMI sacks Sex Pistols for inexplicable behaviour.
Jan 17 - Gary Gilmore, convicted of murdering a Utah gas station attendant, becomes the first person executed in US since 1967. He is executed by firing squad.
Jan 29 - IRA bombs London's West End.
Feb 16 - Genesis perform at the Transit Auditorium, Chicago.
Feb 18 - Ugandan Bishop Janani Luwum is murdered by security forces in Amin's terror wave.
Mar 10 - The Sex Pistols sign with A&M outside Buckingham Palace. After only six days, A&M let the band go due to pressure from their head office in Los Angeles.
Mar 18 - Sylvester Stallone's Rocky wins Best Picture Oscar.
Mar 25 - Genesis perform at the Winterland, San Francisco.
Mar 27 - 574 die as Pan Am and KLM jumbos collide on the ground in world's worst air crash at Tenerife Airport in Canary Islands.
Apr 02 - Red Rum is the first horse to win the Grand National for the third time.
Apr 03 - Genesis perform at the P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver.
May 15 - Genesis perform at the Maracanazinho Stadion, Rio de Janeiro.
May 27 - The Sex Pistols release God Save The Queen.
Jun 06 - The Washington Post reports that the US is developing a neutron bomb, a weapon designed to kill people but cause minimal destruction of property.
Jun 07 - Queen celebrates her Silver Jubilee after 25 years on the throne.
Jun 11 - Genesis perform at the Palais de Sports, Paris (Seconds Out recordings).
Jun 25 - Genesis perform at Earl's Court, London.
Jun 26 - Elvis Presley played his last ever public performance, at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Jul 01 - Virginia Wade beats Chris Evert at the 100th Wimbledon women's single title.
Jul 03 - Genesis perform at the Olympiahalle, Munich (Hackett's last show).
Aug 10 - David Berkowitz is arrested in Yonkers, New York, for killing six people and wounding seven more during his 13-month "Son of Sam" murder spree. Berkowitz claims that his neighbour's dog told him to do it.
Aug 12 - Space Shuttle makes first test flight. The shuttle Enterprise makes its first free flight after being lifted to a height of 25,000 feet on the back of a Boeing 747.
Aug 16 - Elvis Presley, The King of Rock & Roll, found dead.
Sep 12 - Black South African leader Steve Biko is killed while in police custody.
Dec 02 - South African police cleared of killing Steve Biko despite the inquest finding that his death was caused by "application of force to his head" while he was in custody.

Deaths:
Aug 16 - King of Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley, aged 42.
Aug 19 - Comedian, Groucho Marx.
Sep 14 - Black Rights leader Steve Biko.
Sep 16 - Marc Bolan is killed when the car driven by his girlfriend Gloria Jones collides with a tree on Barnes common in South West London. He was 30 years old.
Oct 14 - Singer Bing Crosby (born Harry Lillis Crosby), aged 76.
Oct 20 - Three members of southern US rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd (Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines) are killed when their light plane crashes in Mississippi. Tour manager Dean Kilpatrick is also killed.
Dec 25 - Silent film star Charlie Chaplin dies at home in Switzerland, aged 88.

Movies: Saturday Night Fever, Star Wars, Annie Hall, Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Football: Goal difference replaced goal average to separate clubs with the same number of points. Goal difference is the number of goals scored minus the number conceded. It is a system that favours attacking teams. Liverpool almost completed the treble. They won the League Championship (for the 10th time), lost the FA Cup to Manchester United (who themselves would complete the treble in 1999) and became the first English club since 1968 to win the European Cup. Liverpool became the second English club to play in all three European finals. They became the first English club to win a European trophy in consecutive seasons (having won the UEFA Cup in 1976). Their Championship and European trophy double was their third. Tottenham Hotspur were relegated after 27 consecutive seasons in the top Division. Aston Villa required three matches to win the League Cup for a record 3rd time.

1978
Jan 05 - The Sex Pistols make their US concert debut with a gig in Atlanta, Georgia.
Jan 26 - The Aboriginal Land Rights Act is proclaimed, restoring some NT land to the Aborigines.
Jan 29 - Sweden bans ozone-unfriendly aerosol spays.
Apr 07 - President Carter postpones production of the neutron bomb, pending further research.
Mar 07 - Genesis perform at the March Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto.
Mar 16 - Supertanker Amoco Cadiz runs aground off Brittany, France, spilling over 220,000 tonnes of oil and contaminating the coastline.
May 08 - Donny Osmond gets married at the age of 21, breaking the hearts of thousands of fans.
May 17 - Swiss police find stolen coffin belonging to Charlie Chaplin.
Jun 24 - Genesis perform at Knebworth.
Jun 25 - Argentina wins the (soccer) World Cup, Gods hand helped.
Jul 08 - Clash members Joes Strummer and Paul Simonon are arrested in Glasgow for being drunk and disorderly.
Jul 13 - Genesis perform at the Forum, Montreal.
Jul 18 - In South Africa, Nelson Mandela is refused the thousands of cards he has received for his 60th birthday.
Jul 25 - Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, is born in Manchester, weighing five pounds-twelve ounces.
Aug 28 - Genesis perform at the 28 Stadthalle, Wien.
Sep 03 - New Pope John Paul I is crowned.
Sep 09 - Genesis perform at the Fete de L'Humanite, Paris.
Sep 17 - Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in New Orleans, to win the world heavyweight championship a record third time.
Sep 29 - Geoff Boycott is sacked as captain of Yorkshire Cricket Club.
Sep 29 - New Pope John Paul dies of heart attack after only 33 days in office.
Oct 12 - Ex-Sex Pistol Sid Vicious is arrested in New York and charged with murdering his girlfriend Nancy Spungen the previous evening in the Chelsea Hotel.
Oct 12 - New York's 'Son of Sam' murderer jailed for 150 years.
Oct 16 - Polish Cardinal becomes Pope John Paul II.
Oct 22 - Genesis perform at the Astrodome, Houston.
Nov 04 - Bakers' strike leads to panic buying and bread rationing.
Nov 27 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk are shot dead at City Hall by disgruntled former supervisor Dan White.
White later pleads "Twinkie insanity" (he had been eating too much junk food in the weeks leading up to the attack) and actually receives a reduced sentence.
Nov 30 - Genesis perform at the Shinjuke Kosei Neskin, Osaka.
Dec 02 - Genesis perform at the Sun Plaza Hall, Tokyo.

Deaths:
Jan 23 - Founder member of the group Chicago, Terry Kath, accidentally shoots himself in the head, aged 31.
Sep 08 - Wild drummer of The Who, Keith Moon dies of a drug overdose, aged 32, in the same London apartment where Mama Cass Elliott died in 1974.
Sep 29 - Bulgarian defector Gerogi Markov dies after being stabbed by a poison-tipped umbrella at a London bus stop.
Oct 11 - Nancy Spungen, American girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, is found dead from multiple stab wounds at New York's Chelsea Hotel. Sid Vicious is charged with murder but claims to remember nothing about the night.

Movies: The Deer Hunter, Midnight Express, Heaven Can Wait, Coming Home.

Quote of the Year: "I think Britain could benefit from a Fascist leader. I mean Fascist in its true sense - not Nazi" David Bowie.

Football: Nottingham Forest became the first club since 1962 to win the League Championship the year after being promoted. They also won the League Cup. West Ham United were relegated after 20 consecutive seasons in the top Division. Liverpool became the first English club to retain the European Cup. This was their third consecutive European trophy, a record for an English club.

1979
Jan 16 - The Shah of Iran is driven into exile by fanatical supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini.
Jan 22 - A car bomb in Beirut kills Abu Hassan, allegedly the man behind the 1972 Olympics massacre.
Jan 29 - San Diego teenager Brenda Spencer shoots and kills eleven of her school friends. When asked why she had done it, she replied "I don't like Mondays".
Jan 31 - Public Sector workers strike in response to the government's 5% limit on pay rises. The period becomes known as "the winter of discontent".
Feb 01 - Ayatollah Khomeini comes back to Iran from exile.
Mar 29 - Idi Amin is driven from Uganda as his regime crumbles.
Mar 30 - IRA bomb kills Airey Neave, Tory spokesman on Northern Ireland.
Apr 01 - Iran is declared an Islamic Republic by Ayatollah Khomeini.
Apr 04 - The Yorkshire Ripper claims his 11th victim, in Halifax. For the first time the victim is not a prostitute.
May 04 - Margaret Thatcher is Britain's first woman PM.
May 07 - The Ayatollah Khomeini lowers the age of marriage to 13 for girls and 15 for boys.
May 08 - Ten die and 47 are hurt when fire breaks out in a Woolworth's store in Manchester.
May 25 - An American Airlines DC 10 crashes in Chicago shortly after take-off. 275 people are killed in the worst air disaster in US history.
Jun 13 - The Sioux Indian nation is awarded $17.5 million for lands taken from them in the Black Hills of South Dakota back in 1877 - including interest, the settlement comes to over $100 million.
Jul 16 - Saddam Hussein becomes President of Iraq.
Jul 23 - Ayatollah Khomeini bans the broadcast of music, saying it corrupts youth.
Aug 27 - Lord Mountbatten killed by IRA bomb.
Sep 02 - Yorkshire Ripper claims 12th victim.
Nov 04 - The US embassy in Tehran, Iran is seized by Iranian student revolutionaries. Most foreign hostages are released, but 52 white American males remain hostage. The "hostage crisis" begins - They are not released until January 1981.
Nov 15 - Queen's art adviser, Sir Anthony Blunt, is revealed as a Russian spy.
Nov 22 - UK Mortgage rate hits a record 15%.
Dec 03 - Eleven people are trampled to death in the audience at a concert by The Who at River Front Coliseum, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dec 27 - Soviet troops invade Afghanistan.

Deaths:
Jan 04 - Influential jazz musician Charles Mingus, from a heart attack in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Aged 56.
Feb 02 - Punk star Sid Vicious dies of heroin overdose at a party in New York.
Jun 11 - John Wayne lost his fight against cancer.
Jun 29 - Lowell George (Little Feat) dies of a drug-induced heart attack in Arlington, Virginia, aged 34.
Jul 12 - Singer Minnie Ripperton.
Sep 27 - Guitarist Jimmy McCulloch (Wings, Thunderclap Newman, Small Faces). Aged 26.
Sep 27 - British entertainer Gracie Fields, aged 81, on the Isle of Capri.

Movies: Apocalypse Now, Kramer vs. Kramer, Breaking Away.

Quote of the Year: "It's like saying to Beethoven - This symphony's a real treat, Ludwig, but it's 32 bars too long". John Cleese, who vetoed the sale of Fawlty Towers to America because he refused to allow episodes to be cut.

Football: Liverpool won the Championship for the 11th time after leading all season. Their 68 points was a new record, beating the 67 gained by Leeds United in 1969. Liverpool broke the record by winning 3 - 0 at Leeds United. They conceded 16 goals, another record. Nottingham Forest won the European Cup and the League Cup. In the FA Cup final, Arsenal were winning 2 - 0 with 5 minutes to go. Manchester United scored twice only for Arsenal to score the winner.
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